Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical (1906)
Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866- · London Macmillan · leaf 65
e skirt, while the cotehardie took unto itself another shape, the shouldersbeing broader, the bodice cut low, and edged withfur, with folds of white silk to form a collar, ashort waist being simulated by the wearing of thegirdle high. The last twenty years of the centurysaw the introduction of high… … THE HEAD-DRESS OF HENRY IV. IV IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY ;^s Henry IV., with tender solicitude for his owncomfort and beauty, invented a cloth head-dresswhich enwrapped his baldpate and bore a gold deviceon one side, and a fringeon the hem. A novel head-dress for a woman, calcu-lated to show both…
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